The cure for cults that want to deny others

their freedom of speech is more freedom of speech

-- Fredric Rice

ICR Cult's Circus, Reviewed by David Rice, 10-01-98

I survived the ICR cult's "Back to Genesis" so-called
"seminar," but to do so I had to fortify myself with a
gallon of hyper- caffeinated soft drinks to remain awake. Rev
John Morris and Rev Doug Phillips kept an audience of 1,200
people in thrall with their ancient lies and known falsehoods.

The event was exactly what I had expected: lie following lie
following ad hominem following lie following argumentum ad
numerum following lie following argumentum ad verecundiam
following lie following argumentum ad ignorantiam following lie
following argumentum ad misericordiam following lie following
argumentum ad populum following lie following dicto simpliciter
following lie following non causa pro causa following lie
following post hoc ergo propter hoc following lie following
petitio principii following lie following fallacy of
interrogation following lie following ignoratio elenchi
following lie following slippery slope argument following lie
following argumentum ad antiquitatem following lie following
argumentum ad nauseam following lie following bifurcation
following lie following plurium interrogationum following lie
following non sequitur following lie following reification
following lie following shifting the burden of proof following
lie following straw man.

Indeed, since the speakers claim to be
"full-Bible" Christians, one must wonder why they
refuse to follow Job 13:2-14 where it states unequivically that
lying in the name of the Lord God is a sin that results in
eternal death.

Many of the known false claims were asserted: mis-statement of
the Second Law of Thermodynamics; the "sea salt in the ocean"
equivocation; the false claim that the Mount Saint Hellens'
erruption "looks just like the Grand Canyon;" and nearly every
other falsehood that has come from the cult in the past thirty
years.

Rev John Morris (who has published three real science papers
in his career, the last being 15 years ago) went on and on
about his "evolutionary colleagues" (i.e. real geologists) as
if he were an actual scientist doing work in the field: his
inability to know schist found at the Grand Canyon from
pumice and lahar at Mt. Saint Hellens would astound real
scientists. Whatever cereal box he got his degree from, well,
they should revoke it.

Rev Doug Phillips wailed and moaned about how "evolutionism"
(a term neither reverend bothered to define) is the source
of all human ills, including death. Both reverends went on and
on about how the entire universe was created for "man's" use
(the stars for "a calendar") in such a arrogant, hubristic
way, I am astonished that God did not strike them dead for
their blasphemy. It was therefore astounding when they then
went on to assert that "evolutionism" promotes "arrogance"
and "man worship."

What's more arrogant? Believing that one hundred billion
galexies, each with one hundred billion stars, many or most
with several planets, spanning 94 trillion miles (16 light
years)--- all made for humans; or the acknowledgement of
the fact that Earth is an insignificant speck in a vast
ocean of space, and humanity just a brief speck of life in
the cosmos, utterly trivial? The ICR cult claims the latter
is "arrogant" and "worships man, not the creator(s)."

The "tower of Bable" myth, we were told, was a result of what
they called "evolutionism." Indeed, death itself was due to
"evolutionism." Racism is due to "evolutionism." Feminism
and equality is due to "evolutionism." Child abuse is due to
"evolutionism." One of the most bizarre statements made was
that "evolutionism is the foundation of abortion" and something
they called "the partial-birth abortion" (which my research
shows does not exist).

I have nine hours of audio recording from the cult's "seminar."
At the moment I have no idea what to do with it. Rev Morris
gave his blessing to distribute their occult speal, with the
only stipulation that it not be sold. I might use these tapes
to write up a more detailed account of the cult's circus.

Speaking of which, the cult made a bundle of money at their
"seminar." Many hundreds of expensive books were sold (after
they packed up their wares, I counted 30 large empty boxes they
left behind). It is very clear that Creationism is big business,
raking in millions of tax-free dollars every year.

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